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So as an independent consultant in this tough economy I take projects as they come along, regardless of the content. In this recent instance I took on a adult-oriented content site, Alternative Haven, and had setup a PayPal donation link. Now I had been a PayPal user since way back in 2000 shortly after PayPal sprung into existence in 1999. I was very careful to read the User Agreement and the Acceptable Use Policy and have not had any cause for alarm since then. Between 2000 and 2004 I was receiving payments fairly regularly while I ran a LiveJournal-clone site called UnderGrid Journals, but those payments ceased when the site was taken down in early ‘04. Since then it has been used regularly by me to pay for conference tickets and also my wonderful Xen VPS hosting service through VPSFarm.com.

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So we’re currently working on an adult-oriented website in Ruby on Rails. The project is pretty daunting so we’re looking for potential assistance in putting some of the pieces together.

If you have any Rails experience, are interested and don’t have a problem working on an adult-oriented website then please get in touch with a sample of your work. Given the nature of the site and the fact it is in stealth development mode we have to be vague on the details at this time.

Taking GNU Privacy Guard key usage seriously I have had a published key usage policy that I embed the link into any GPG key signature when signing a key. After years of using PGP/GPG I have found that having an established usage and management policy is nice as it lets others know that you take your key usage seriously.

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So I’ve got this serious jonesing love/hate relationship with spam. Personally I’d love to collect all the spammers of the world in a nice lead lined room and irradiate them with low yield nuclear waste. Not enough to kill them note you, just enough to ensure that they don’t breed!

There are so many methods out there to try and curb the amount of spam out there but never seems to be enough adoption of them. I try my best to implement what I can as I’ve fallen victim of several “joe jobs” in the past. As a result of that I looked at Sender Policy Framework (SPF) before it got introduced into the IETF track and became spf2.0/mfrom,pra. I’m still running my spf1 classic records and it has helped a bit, but I wonder just how many servers really bother to check and honor the policies published.

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So we had to go and rebuild the servers, as a side affect this means our old blog site is currently not been restored. Please continue to check back as we should have it fully restored and improved soon. There are lots of things happening behind the scenes and this will be the place to find out all about them.